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Is there something like a peer to peer science?

22/03/2010

Abstract

How will peer to peer
infrastructures, and the underlying intersubjective and ethical relational
model that is implied by it, affect scientific practice? Are peer-to-peer forms
of cooperation, based on open and free input of voluntary contributors,
participatory processes of governance, and universal availability of the
output, more productive than centralized alternatives? In this short
introduction, Michel Bauwens reviews a number of open and free, participatory
and commons oriented practices that are emerging in scientific research and
practice, but which ultimately point to a more profound epistemological
revolution linked to increased participatory consciousness between the
scientist and his human, organic and inorganic research material.